Word: conly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bereaved relatives huddled in shock and grief at Detroit Metropolitan Airport last month after the Northwest Airlines crash that killed 156 people, the Rev. John Irish, a Roman Catholic priest, was on hand to console them. And, apparently, to con them. Last week Detroit authorities said that Irish, who was dressed in a black suit and clerical collar, was actually a veteran ambulance chaser posing as a priest to steer business to a Florida lawyer named Ronald Brimmell. Says Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano: "He would try to win the confidence of victims' families, and then say, 'I have this...
...Cosby learned that he could make people like him, and get his way, by making them laugh. He would con his mother out of a cookie by reprising a humorous radio show, and amuse his brothers by cooking breakfast with imaginative dashes of food coloring: purple waffles, green scrambled eggs. At school he would charm the teachers and tell tall tales. An early report card said, "William should become either a lawyer or an actor because he lies so well." Cosby starred in class plays and displayed both a talent for mimicry and a prodigious memory. He scored high...
...Vernon Hightower, who owns a bar teetering toward bankruptcy, is a congenital optimist. Nadine, his estranged wife, sees life too clearly to find much hope in it. Cute couple for a caper film -- maybe even a fun couple, game to turn love-hate into love-great and to con the local crooks. Well, no. As played by Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger, they are an "un" couple: unsuitable emotionally, underdeveloped dramatically. The picture is plenty handsome, and Glenne Headly and Rip Torn have some fun as a lost lady and the meanest guy in Austin, Texas. Still, Nadine, an agreeable...
...thinking. Here comes another pistol-packing, Bible-banging, right-wing weirdo who believes every single word in the Gospels and will try to plead, con or force you into pistol-packing, Bible-banging and right-wing voting...
SENTENCED. Joe Hunt, 27, founder and leader of the so-called Billionaire Boys Club, an organization of scions of wealthy Los Angeles families; to life in prison without parole; after being convicted of murdering Beverly Hills Con Man Ron Levin, 42, who had bilked Hunt of $4 million...